___________________________ Early Case Assessment

Early Case Assessment is a critical step in the discovery process, in that it offers decision makers a detailed view of the nature and content of data they may need to review.

Discovery costs are usually the most financially burdensome aspect of most litigation, for both plaintiffs and defendants. And the bulk of the expense goes toward electronic data processing and document review.

Early Case Assessment can help attorneys substantially - and safely - reduce the size of the data population that will be processed and reviewed, by providing detailed summary reports of file types, sizes, dates, e-mail attachments, duplicates, folders and media, and much more. What's more, it's an invaluable tool when preparing for the 26(f) Meet and Confer.

After review the Early Case analysis, attorneys can make better-enformed discovery decisions. In collaboration with their e-discovery experts, they can develop culling and filtering strategies that zero in on the most important data and limit the volume - and associated cost - of information that must be processed and reviewed.

IES' Early Case Assessment service:

• extracts emails, attachments and metadata
• generates hash values
• detects and identifies duplicate documents
• creates anl inventory database of all documents and emails
• analyzes .zip, .rar and other archive formats
• uses the National Software Reference Library to identify and remove known system files
• provides more than fifty different types of analytics and reports to allow an in-depth understanding of any data population, regardless of its size or makeup.

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